BTE TRYOUT THREAD #5
Miles and Ishmael (Detritus and outlander4)
You awaken feeling strangled, coughing and choking as you fall to your hands and knees. Your eyes open wearily - and you see nothing. Gasping for air, you glance about wildly, disoriented, and realize to your horror that you're in the middle of a vast, black emptiness. Terrified, you instinctively grasp at the void about you for something - anything - solid. You realize that despite the enveloping darkness, your arms glow with a strange light - suddenly you pause and rack your brain for any hint as to what's going on. The last you remember clearly is being sold to Tartarus Inc. You remember them strip-searching you, your last possessions taken away before the coarse-mannered guards threw you into an empty cell. Everything about it seems a struggle to recall - clouded and fogged as though a distant memory.Miles and Ishmael (Detritus and outlander4)
Welcome, a cold, hard voice speaks. It's not the infamous SCAMPS of Tartarus - it's a woman's voice: cruel, hard, and utterly devoid of sympathy. You're wondering what you're doing here. Try not to trouble yourself about it.
A glow brightens to your right - in surprise and slight fear, you scoot back across the floor as you try to assess the new threat. A human form, dressed in a Tartarus jumpsuit, appears and crumples to the floor, choking and gasping for breath.
I'm so sorry, the voice says with an air that makes it clear her words are merely a formality. I understand that this experience is mentally agonizing. We're far from perfecting cryotech, you see, but you are here to help us correct that. You are our test subjects. If you ever want to awaken, both of you will cooperate. You've always cooperated with us before, so I have no doubt you'll do so now.
Your mind whirls. You vaguely remember being pulled from your isolation cell - you remember being marched down a hallway, blindfolded, cuffed and gagged - something injected into your arm. That's all you remember. Cryotech? That doesn't even exist...
Then it sinks in: You've always cooperated with us before. "Before???"
It's "brain maintenance," the voice explains in a resigned, curt tone, as though she's said it a hundred times. Cryotech has a tendency to leave one vegetative. Now, the both of you... make your decision, and we will begin.
The void hums, and shivers to life - six pale, golden hexagons of light appear pm the floor around you, spaced well apart. On each: a short paragraph of text.
You feel like you've done this before.
But which to stand upon? And who is this person next to you?
Desert defense
Stranded in the Alviguerran Badlands on Oreipa Beta, you find yourself surrounded by Calvono's gang - a group of lowlife pirates that want you dead. You manage to stay away long enough to find cover in an abandoned building... but can you hold out against their superior numbers?
Drone bait
Your pals are trying to break into a government storage facility, but the base's attack drones are onto them. Try to draw their fire ASAP, and then figure out how to stay alive to finish the mission.
This tile has the silhouette of a spaceship underneath the text.
Jungle ambush
Stranded in a jungle, you find yourself lost, dazed, and confused, with no idea where the spaceport is. If only there was a trail... and if only there weren't dozens of hungry beasts waiting for you behind every tree.
Zombie strike
Typical zombie scenario. Your little group of three is trying to break into a secure bomb shelter, but the zombies have figured out where you are. They're coming. Take cover and hold them off for as long as possible before you're inevitably eaten.
Civilian uprising
For a long time, you and your police buddies on Antonga IV have been "commandeering" the local population's most prized possessions "for the defense of the colony". Now, however, they've found you out... and they're coming to take back what's theirs.
Something different
You are thrown into a random mission without any idea of what you're up against. It may or may not suit your abilities and loadout.
A question mark dominates this particular hexagon.
Spoiler: SHOW